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On April 27, I had the opportunity to take my son to the town of Heath Springs’ Health and Wellness Fair. We were invited by friends in Heath Springs.
I was thoroughly impressed with the number of vendors, the health screenings, and events focused on the health of both adults and children.

A Heath Springs man was killed Wednesday evening in a one-vehicle crash near Primus Crossroads in eastern Lancaster County.
Deputy Coroner Lynette Walker identified the victim as 42-year-old Robert Blake Crimminger.
Walker said the wreck happened on Pleasant Road, which runs from S.C. 522 near High Point Baptist Church to the intersection of S.C. 903.
S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Gary Miller said Crimminger was headed west in a 1999 Chevrolet pickup about 6:50 p.m. Wednesday when he ran off the road. The truck hit a tree and caught fire.

Last week’s headline reads “Mega-sports complex at Lennar project?”
The article reads, “For several months, county leaders have been trying to find a suitable tract near the U.S. 521 corridor between Lancaster and Indian Land for a large sports complex with fields for baseball, football, soccer and lacrosse, as well as a gym.”
This Indian Land resident says, “No more U.S. 521 destination buildouts.” We are at gridlock and southern county leaders don’t give a squat, as long as Indian Land remains their cash cow.

Michael Knight
For The Lancaster News
Lancaster Motor Speedway will be taking off Saturday at the half-mile dirt oval.
The off-week is due to numerous drivers and fans going on vacation to Myrtle Beach for the annual bike week.
The following Saturday night, May 25, is still to be announced, but with all the rainouts for the 2019 racing season so far, LMS co-promoters Shannon Munn and Eric Caskey will reschedule one of the rainout races for May 25.
The June 1 race has been discussed for a while.

This is a response to a Fort Mill YMCA member whose column appeared in the May 8 paper.
As the concerned citizen outlines, we have received several inquiries concerning the water temperature at the Fort Mill YMCA at the Complex. Throughout this process, we have communicated through email with any new information.

The city of Lancaster’s preliminary budget for fiscal 2019-20 is nearly $3 million less than last year’s and $9 million less than the year before that.
City Finance Director Dana Pinkert presented the recommended budget of approximately $25 million to city council during a special council meeting Tuesday evening.
“We had to deal with losing the tax dollars from the hospital,” she said. “We’re anticipating lower tax dollars, so we had to make some reductions.”

Lancaster County and the city of Lancaster have joined forces to make more than $100,000 in improvements to Wylie Street Pool and the surrounding area, including a new playground and picnic shelter.
City council member Kenny Hood was one of the proponents of the project.

Landrum High School, ranked No. 1 in the final regular season SC Baseball Coaches Association state poll, proved its top diamond billing a bull’s-eye, winning the 2019 Class AA state baseball championship.
The Landrum Cardinals, forced to a final game in the double-elimination Class AA Upper State championship series by Andrew Jackson High School, won the state title in two games.

Today through Tuesday, abnormally high temperatures may break local records dating back to the early 1900s.
Some meteorologists this week blamed a “heat ridge” for the forecast.
“What people are referring to when they talk about a heat ridge is there’s a large ridge of high pressure that’s going to be across the Southeast over the next several days,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Leonard Vaughan.